***The official University of Michigan Chances Thread:***

<p>Post your chances here (it's easier than having 15 different chances threads). Good luck!</p>

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.):
[ *] SAT:
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent):
[ *] ACT:
[ *] UM unweighted GPA:
[ *] Rank:
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] major strength/weakness:
[ *] Other Factors/questions:</p>

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): Ross
[ *] SAT: superscore M 740 R 600 W 590
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent):M1 740 M11 690
[ *] ACT:
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: don't know how to calc
[ *] Rank: 26/396
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):pretty good, one leadership position and 160 hours of volunteering
[ *] Essays: goo
[ *] Teacher Recs:good
[ *] Counselor Rec:good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): none
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: New Jersey
[ *] School Type: public
[ *] Ethnicity: Indian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness:
[ *] Other Factors/questions:</p>

<p>where in jersey? i'm from scotch plains. i'm a current freshman.</p>

<p>you have a chance </p>

<p>but definetly not a gurantee/safety - more on the side of slight reach id say</p>

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): Engineering: Computer and Electrical
[ *] SAT: 500CR 660M 620W resitting on Jan26
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): 700 MathsIIC 650 Physics
[ *] UM unweighted GPA:4.0
[ *] Rank: School doesn't rank, however, probably top 10%
[ *] Other stats: Took most advanced courses school offers according to Brititish system
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
Activities:
Open-age Table Tennis Team Player and captain, participated in 3 tournaments (Grades 10-12)</p>

<p>Open-age basketball team (Grades 11-12)
Macbeth; School production (Grade 11)
Model United Nations (MUN) (Grade 12)
Voluntary Service in summer 2007 at Kuwait University Computer Department (Grades 11-12) 30hours/week for 1 week
Table Tennis Club (Grades 8-12) 1hour/week for 35 weeks
Inter house Basketball (Grades 10-12)
Inter house Soccer (Grades 3-10)
Inter house Table Tennis (Grades 9-12)
Inter house Quiz (Grades 3-10)
Physics Construction Challenge Member (Grade 11)
Physics Construction Challenge Courtesy Volunteer (Grade 12)
Mathematics and Chemistry Department Website Maintenance and Creator (Grade 12)
Canadian Mathematics Competitions all since grade 9-12 including; Hypatia, galois, fryer and the open-age mathematics competition</p>

<p>Positions-
Open-age Table Tennis Captain (Grades 11-12)
Form House Captain/Representative (Grades 7-10)
Monitor (Grade 6)
Mathematics and Chemistry Department website editor (Grade 12)</p>

<p>Any awards or honors (academic and extra-curricular):</p>

<p>KFSAC Table Tennis Tournament Champions (Grades 11 and 12) Gold Medal winner
KFSAC Table Tennis Tournament Runners up (Grade 10) Silver Medal awarded
IGCSE History Prize Winner (Grade 10)
Progress Prize Winner on the year group (Grade 3)
Arabic as a first language Prize Winner (Grades 3, 4)
Koran Prize Winner (Grades 5,6)
IGCSE Accounting Prize Winner (Grade 10)
French Prize Winner (Grade 8)
History Prize Winner (Grades 8, 9)
KFSAC Open-age Basketball Team Champions (Grade 11)
Canadian Mathematic Competition participator; Pascal, Cayley, Fermat, Hypatia, Euclid and the Open Mathematics Challenge contests. (Grades 9-12)
Model United Nations- Ambassador of Egypt (Grade 12)
[ *] Essays: Excellent
[ *] Teacher Recs: Best i've read
[ *] Counselor Rec: Best i've read
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): None
[ *) Location/Person: Resident of New Jersey Currently living in kuwait but US citizen
[ *] State or Country: USA
[ *] School Type: Private
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender: Male</p>

<p>please chance me...thanks guys! :)</p>

<p>slight reach.</p>

<p>you have a great GPA, and it has become obvious over these past few months that the transcript is the most important part of an application. your scores (might) hold you back, though.</p>

<p>***EDIT: Please DO NOT superscore the SAT/ACT; instead, use the highest score from any one sitting. </p>

<p>UM GPA: 10th and 11th grade, 4 pts for all A's, regardless of H/AP/IB (in other words, discard weighted point), 3 pts for all B's, 2 pts. for C's, etc. DO not include +/-; A- is the same value (4 pts) as A and A+, for example.</p>

<p>jeter: please unsuperscore the SAT and figure out the GPA, then we would be glad to chance you.</p>

<p>brkr: Right now, the SATs are holding you back. You uw GPA is excellent, but the odds of them taking you over someone with, say, a 3.8 and 1990, are slim; get those scores above 1950, and I think you have a very strong shot. Study hard, you can do it!</p>

<p>unsuperscored is like 1900. gpa is like a 3.5ish. would being indian hurt my chances or help.</p>

<p>answer his q. first obviously, if someone knows.</p>

<p>[ *] College (LSA):
[ *] SAT: SAT I Math: 630
SAT I Critical Reading: 740
SAT I Writing: 570 (66O on different test though)
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent):
[ *] ACT: 28
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.63
[ *] Rank: top 10% (weighted tho, unweighted is prob top 15 or 20
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
[ *] Essays: i really don't know, at least okay.
[ *] Teacher Recs: don't know, didn't see them. prob okay
[ *] Counselor Rec: she doesn't really know me but i told her a lot in our interview so hopefully good.
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): no.
[ *) Location/Person: Arlington Heights
[ *] State or Country: Illinois
[ *] School Type: public, a good school but not crazy competitive like stevenson
[ *] Ethnicity: white
[ *] Gender: F
[ *] major strength/weakness: well my sat math sucks but i tutor math for pay and am a year a head of my class in math, lol (altho i did have to drop down to calc ab from bc...)
[ *] Other Factors/questions:
Gender: F
Location: Arlington Heights
Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Significant Extracurriculars: Speech and Acting team 3 yrs, debate this year, Relay for life some fundraising and planning sophomore yr, paid mathematics tutoring for 1.5 years now.
Leadership positions: relay for life committee member soph. year and junior captain for speech and acting this yr. Co-chair for this yr's relay for life.
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: zilch.
Volunteer/Service Work: 3 yr service club member (done small bits of service but nothing really big)
Honors and Awards: NHS, Spanish honor society, honor roll a, AP scholar with honor.</p>

<p>jeter: i would guess definite defer; GPA is pretty low considering who they've been admitting (several people with around a 3.65, 2000+ SAT were deferred due supposedly to GPA).</p>

<p>muzic: same thing for you lol. You definitely have a shot, but i'd be surprised if you were immediately admitted w/o being deferred first, due to below avg. GPA and SAT. ECs are nothing special, and leadership is average at best.</p>

<p>GPA alone is not sufficient without know your curriculum. Suggest we add a separate category for curriculum.</p>

<p><strong><em>EDIT: Please follow this format:</em></strong></p>

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.):
[ *] SAT (one sitting):
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent):
[ *] ACT:
[ *] UM unweighted GPA:
[ *] Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.):
[ *] Rank:
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] major strength/weakness:
[ *] Other Factors/questions:</p>

<p>Hmmm... I've seen decisions threads before, but never a chances thread for multiple applicants. It seems a little funny to me for some reason -- maybe the fact that it reminds me of a beauty pageant, with vc08 being the judge.</p>

<p>haha, that's an interesting analogy. Several colleges on this forum have similar threads (I stole this format from Boston College I believe, but I've also seen them periodically on Cal, Stanford, UCLA, and others). And I don't have to be the judge lol, jst tryin to help ppl out :)</p>

<p>edit: oops</p>

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA
[ *] ACT:33
[ *] UM unweighted GPA:3.4
[ *] Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): dont know number but all honors/ap sice 10th grade. and about 75% honors before
[ *] Rank:top 30-35% at really competetive school
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): upward trend. good ec's(100hrs volunteering, captain of robotics club, jv and varsity tennis, marching band, guitar for 8 yrs,etc)
[ *] Essays:great
[ *] Teacher Recs: great
[ *] Counselor Rec: great
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): brother attends(yes it does help slightly check their website!), umm parents from egypt, im from canada, speak 3 languages( 2 at home +spanish at school)
[ *] Location/Person: stl
[ *] State or Country: MO
[ *] School Type: competetive public
[ *] Ethnicity: technically caucasian
[ *] Gender: male
[ *] major strength/weakness: weakness-grades strength-essays</p>

<p>*] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA
[ *] SAT (one sitting): 1990 (710 math, 660 Writing, 620 CR)
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): 700 Math I, 610 Biology M, 610 US History
[ *] ACT:
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.7
[ *] Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): 6 AP Classes (3 last year and 3 this year)
[ *] Rank: 43/538
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): Great; I founded an organization called P.E.A.C.E.
[ *] Essays: Ok
[ *] Teacher Recs: Pretty Standard
[ *] Counselor Rec: Great; She knows me very well
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): UM (both parents from jamaica); founded a club
[ *) Location/Person: Piscataway
[ *] State or Country: NJk
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Black/Jamaican American
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: Strength-Um status; grades Weakness-SAT score?
[ *] Other Factors/questions: Out of state applicant though I knoe a lot of NJ kids applying</p>

<p>sublimo: man, aren't you an interesting case study lol! You ACT is excellent, but I'm concerned about your GPA; that seems to be Mich's deciding factor this year, and I believe someone on here had around a 2270 SAT but was deferred be they had a sub-3.5 GPA. I would have to guess deferral for you as well, but it's hard to say how much they look at the recs and essays. For a candidate like you, it might make the difference; some people claim their essays got them in, others feel they dont really matter (which seems odd considering they make you write 3 of them). I'd say you have a decent shot at acceptance, no shot at denial, and a probably shot at deferral. Good luck!</p>

<p>oh yeah: legacy status will help! maybe that will get you over!</p>

<p>jskillz: i'd have to put you in virtually the same category as sublimo. I was accepted with a very similar SAT, but I had a 3.97 GPA , which made the difference IMO. Did you incorporate your background into your essay? If you did, that could be a big help. Founding a club is good, but what does it do? Many people, perhaps even a majority of applicants, founded some club or organization in hs. Is yours unique? You uw GPA is very solid, but nothing spectacular; overall, I'd say you are a solid candidate, but your essays need to add the 'pizzaz' to your application. Hope they're better than 'ok'! Best of luck, you have a great background, make Michigan realize what you could do with it!</p>

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA
[ *] SAT (one Sitting): m620 cr670 w640
[ *] ACT:30 Eng:35 M:26 Sci:27 Rea:31
[ *] UM unweighted GPA:3.0
[ *] Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): no honors offered before 10th grade, no APs offered before 11th. (1 honor 2 APs taken)
[ *] Rank: dont rank
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): 40 hrs volunteer @ dental clinic; 4 years work experience (30+ hrs/week school; 60 hrs/week breaks); 2 yrs Big Brothers Big Sisters; 3 years Mock Trial; 7 years of taekwondoo (3 gold medals)
[ *] Essays:good
[ *] Teacher Recs: great
[ *] Counselor Rec: great
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):
[ *] Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: hawaii
[ *] School Type: crappy public
[ *] Ethnicity: lower-class, white
[ *] Gender: female
[ *] major strength/weakness: weakness-grades; strength-work exp/recs/ACT</p>